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  • Letters for the Church: Reading James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, and Jude as Canon, By Darian R. Lockett
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    Letters for the Church

    Reading James, 1-2 Peter, 1-3 John, and Jude as Canon

    by Darian R. Lockett

    Biblical Foundations Book Awards Finalist

    The Catholic Epistles often get short shrift. Tucked into a few pages near the back of our Bibles, these books are sometimes referred to as the "non-Pauline epistles" or "concluding letters," maybe getting lumped together with Hebrews and Revelation. Yet these letters, Darian Lockett argues, are treasures hidden in ...

  • Life in the Son: Exploring Participation and Union with Christ in John's Gospel and Letters, By Clive Bowsher
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    Life in the Son

    Exploring Participation and Union with Christ in John's Gospel and Letters

    New Studies in Biblical Theology

    by Clive Bowsher
    Series edited by D. A. Carson

    The New Testament writers use spatial language and imagery to portray our relationship with God, speaking both about God or Christ in us and us in them. Believers are also described as possessing and participating in divine qualities such as life and glory. Both aspects are prominent in John's Gospel and letters. However, outside the Pauline writings, union with Christ has hardly ...

  • Belonging: Accessibility, Inclusion, and Christian Community, By Deborah Meyer Abbs
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    Belonging

    Accessibility, Inclusion, and Christian Community

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Deborah Meyer Abbs

    God created all of us for relationship with God and each other. Yet most people have felt left out at some point. For those with visible or invisible disabilities, attitudes and systems of ableism can particularly lead to deep hurt and barriers to fully participating in God's kingdom work. We all miss out when any members of the body of Christ are not included.

    In this nine-session ...

    Number of Studies: 9

  • Creating Cultures of Belonging: Cultivating Organizations Where Women and Men Thrive, By Beth Birmingham and Eeva Sallinen Simard
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    Creating Cultures of Belonging

    Cultivating Organizations Where Women and Men Thrive

    by Beth Birmingham and Eeva Sallinen Simard
    Foreword by Myal Greene and Emily Sarmiento

    With increasing interest from donors and board members to see faith-based, missional organizations reflect the diversity of God's kingdom, these organizations desire to have women in positions of leadership. However, this proves difficult when the organizational culture is one that silences and even penalizes the unique giftings that women bring to the table.

    Many organizations ...

  • Holiness: A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Theology, By Matt Ayars and Christopher T. Bounds and Caleb T. Friedeman
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    Holiness

    A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Theology

    by Matt Ayars, Christopher T. Bounds, and Caleb T. Friedeman

    Be holy because I am holy. Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

    The Christian life includes many demands, but perhaps none are as challenging or as misunderstood as the biblical command to "be holy" (Leviticus 11:44 and 1 Peter 1:16) or to "be perfect" (Matthew 5:48). How should we understand these charges?

    In this volume, three scholars from the Wesleyan tradition ...

  • Relational Leadership: A Biblical Model for Influence and Service, By Walter C. Wright Jr.
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    Relational Leadership

    A Biblical Model for Influence and Service

    by Walter C. Wright Jr.
    Foreword by Richard J. Mouw and Eugene H. Peterson

    Leadership. What does it mean? How do I do it? Who is a leader and who is not? Relational Leadership will stimulate your thinking about leadership and management, causing you to both ask questions and find answers. Ultimately, this will enable you to invest yourself in people for the sake of the kingdom. Drawing on leadership theory, his own experience and insights from Jude, Philemon ...

  • Justification: Five Views, Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy
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    Justification

    Five Views

    Spectrum Multiview Book Series

    Edited by James K. Beilby and Paul Rhodes Eddy
    Associate Editor Steven E. Enderlein
    Contributions by Michael S. Horton, Michael F. Bird, James D. G. Dunn, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen, Gerald O'Collins, and Oliver Rafferty

    "Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ" (Rom 5:1). When Paul wrote these words he seemed confident he had made himself clear.

    But for centuries the Pauline doctrine of justification has been a classic point of interpretation and debate in Christian exegesis and theology. And while in recent decades there have ...

  • Saying Is Believing: The Necessity of Testimony in Adolescent Spiritual Development, By Amanda Hontz Drury
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    Saying Is Believing

    The Necessity of Testimony in Adolescent Spiritual Development

    by Amanda Hontz Drury

    "I have seen and I testify . . ." (John 1:34) The idea of giving one's testimony often evokes summer church camps, evangelistic revivals, mission trips and baptisms. Like an eyewitness called to testify in a courtroom, sharing a testimony of faith is for specific people at special moments. But what if our view of testimony is all wrong? According to Amanda Drury, testimony is not merely about ...

  • Forgiveness: Making Peace with the Past, By Douglas Connelly
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    Forgiveness

    Making Peace with the Past

    LifeGuide Bible Studies

    by Douglas Connelly

    Forgiveness is a door. It's the way to peace and joy. But it's a small door, and it can't be entered without stooping—or kneeling. And sometimes it is very hard to find. When we hurt the people we love, how do we go about restoring the relationship? When we suffer the pain of betrayal or injury or rejection from someone else, how do we deal with the anger and resentment we feel? In eight studies, ...

    Number of Studies: 8